on Capri? The Germans have excellent sanatoriums (for instance, in St. Blasien, near Switzerland), where they treat and completely cure pulmonary complaints, achieve full scarring, build up the body, then systematically accustom one to cold, harden against colds, and discharge fit, able-bodied people.

But you — after Capri in winter — to Russia???? I am terribly afraid that this will damage your health and undermine your work capacity. Are there first-class doctors in this Italy??

Really, do go to a first-class doctor in Switzerland* or Germany — 
undertake 2 months of serious treatment in a good sanatorium. Otherwise to squander carelessly 
public property, i.e., to fall ill and undermine one's work capacity — this is quite inadmissible in all respects.

I heard (from the editor of *Prosveshchenie*,** who saw Ladyzhnikov), that you are dissatisfied with *Pravda*. With its dryness? That is true. But this deficiency is not easy to correct all at once. There are not enough people. With great difficulty, a year after the start, we have achieved only a tolerable editorial board in Petersburg.
(I am forwarding your letter to *Prosveshchenie*.)
Write about your plans and how your health is. I urgently beg you to undertake serious treatment — by all means, it is quite possible to recover, but to neglect it — it is simply godless and criminal.

Your Lenin

P.S. We have had partly, and partly shall have good people. Have you seen *Nash Put*?

What is its success? Already the second newspaper. We shall establish a third — in the south.

Address: Ulianow. Poronin (Galizien). Austria. (In winter I shall be in Krakow: Lubomirskiego. 51.)

* I can find out names and addresses.

** This refers to M. A. Saveliev. Editor's note.

Sent to the island of Capri (Italy)

First published in 1924

in Leninskii sbornik I

Printed from the manuscript